At an Ernst & Young event that I attended a few months ago, Mary Ellen Sheets, the founder of Two Men and a Truck, was asked to share her best piece of business advice. Her response was, “Always say, ‘Yes.’” She explained that the number of doors that opened, the number of new opportunities that […]
Month: November 2011
Everyone Has an Opinion
Networking is exciting! It gives us an opportunity to interact with people who we admire, people whose input we value, people who we might otherwise think out of reach. So, you’ve sent the invitation… he/she said, “yes.” You go to the meeting… you are sitting there… and you totally and completely disagree with everything they […]
Of course, there are some who won’t help
Yesterday, I told you that everyone wants to help. They do! That was one of the great surprise-and-delight results of my early networking quest. When I requested a meeting with a prospect, they invariably said, “Yes!” That is, invariably except for the ones who said, “no.” There were five of them. I won’t share their […]